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Improving the Performance of the Public Health Care System in Greece

Economou, Charalampos; Giorno, Claude - Economics Department, Organisation de Coopération et … - 2009

Greek health outcomes compare favourably with the OECD average. However, the health care system is seen as not working well by the population. One source of dissatisfaction is the high proportion of private household spending on health, including informal payments, while public health spending...

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RELATIONSHIP AND CAUSALITY BETWEEN ECONOMIC GROWTH RATE AND CERTAIN DISEASES IN THE EUROPEAN UNION

Lucian, UNITA; Oreste, STRACIUC; Traian, MAGHIAR T.; … - In: Annals of Faculty of Economics 1 (2009) 1, pp. 478-484

The objective of this paper is to further research the already established relationship between economic growth and health by using the results of some previous works and applying them on the recent data, in order to find out if the economic growth rate i

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Diferente de gen si sanatate publica - Gender Differences and Public Health

GUTTMAN, Filip - In: Postmodern Openings 2 (2010) June, pp. 25-34

This article try to explain the connections between gender concept and the acces to public health with two main streams: feminist and universal (gender blind). The actual situation of women in health policy is a priority if we want an equal acces. This article shows only a few aspects of the...

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The Price of a Price: On the Crowding out of Social Norms

Janssen, Maarten C.W.; Mendys, Ewa - Tinbergen Institute - 2001

There is increasing empirical and experimental evidence that providing financial incentives to agents to perform certain socially desirable actions may permanently reduce other types of motivations to undertake these actions. We study the impact of financial incentives on the desire for social...

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A Review of Alternative Approaches to Healthcare Resource Allocation

Petrou, Stavros; Wolstenholme, Jane - In: PharmacoEconomics 18 (2000) 1, pp. 33-43

The resources available for healthcare are limited compared with demand, if not need, and all healthcare systems, regardless of their financing and organisation, employ mechanisms to ration or prioritise finite healthcare resources. This paper reviews alternative approaches that can be used to...

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Reform of Fee-for-Service Medicare: The Forgotten Opportunity

Frech, H.E. III - 1998

Medicare is a costly and rapidly growing program. At currently projected growth rates, it is the wild card in the debate over the political viability of social security. Further, the all-important Medicare growth rate is very hard to predict. Forecasting the pension aspect of Social Security is...

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Health and Individual and Community Characteristics: A Research Protocol

Beland, Francois; Birch, Steve; Stoddart, Greg - Department of Economics, McMaster University - 1999

Population health policies tend to target communities to enhance the health status of individuals. However, little is known about the effects of community or socio-economic environmental variables on individual health characteristics and behaviour patterns. This paper outlines procedures...

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Better Value for Money in Healthcare: European Lessons for Canada

Blomqvist, Ake; Busby, Colin - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2012) 339

Modern health systems, like Canada’s, face similar pressures. Populations are aging, government revenues are dwindling, and the scope for new services is increasing as new technologies develop. However, each country is responding to these pressures in unique ways. Arguably, Canadians pay too...

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How to Pay Family Doctors: Why "Pay per Patient" is Better Than Fee for Service

Blomqvist, Ake; Busby, Colin - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2012) 365

Physician compensation accounts for about one-fifth of all Canadian healthcare spending. But physicians’ decisions …, particularly those made by primary care doctors, are the conduit for the majority of the system’s costs. The incentives physicians … could be extended so that primary care physicians would keep track of the costs of their referrals and prescribed treatments …

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A Taxing Dilemma: Assessing the Impact of Tax and Price Changes on the Tobacco Market

Irvine, Ian; Sims, William - In: C.D. Howe Institute Commentary (2012) 350

Sales of contraband cigarettes in Canada constitute a sizable component of the tobacco market. This illegal trade is associated with a loss in tax revenue and an array of illicit activities that involve gangs and organized crime. Various policy responses have been called for to counter this...

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